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BY TAIBA SHEERIN AHMADContributor to the Shorthorn

According to Sallie Mae’s new Smart Option Student Loan, students taking a loan beginning June 1 must sign a promissory

note that requires they make in-terest payments while in school.

Existing loans aren’t affected by the new provision, and the change shouldn’t discourage students at the university from applying for Sallie Mae loans, Financial Aid Director Karen Krause said.

While the changes require stu-

dents to begin payment install-ments earlier, the change would reduce the interest accrued while students are in school, reducing the amount to be repaid after graduation.

“In the long run, making inter-est payments while still in school will greatly reduce the amount the student pays back over the life

of the loan,” Krause said.Still, some who rely on those

loans to get through college may find making payments difficult.

“Some students don’t have a job while in school,” finance junior Michael Mcevers said. “It might be just impossible to pay

New rules for Sallie Mae loans to take effect June 1

FINANCIAL AID

Changes include students paying interest on debt before they graduate.

SALLIE continues on page 4A

BY SARAH LUTZThe Shorthorn staff

The university has a provisional parking plan to complement the special events center, that includes construc-tion in phases and lot expansions to lessen parking woes.

John Hall, Administration and Campus Operations vice president, said the university will expand some parking lots and add two new parking garages north of the events center. Hall said the university will build garages in phases — first the south, then the north — to minimize the impact of construction.

“Our purpose is really to share this information with several groups just to start getting some feedback,” he said. “This is certainly a very preliminary plan. It’s not set in stone by any means but when we announced the fact that we’re going forward with the construc-tion over here, there was a lot of con-cern over the effect it was going to hap-pen on parking.”

Hall said the southern parking lots had on average 750 vacant spots throughout the spring. The university has been monitoring these lots around 10:30 to 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday during peak parking times.

“We want to continue monitoring these lots in the fall and see if we’re still coming up with an average of 750 vacant spaces or if it’s something less,” he said. “And if it’s something less, then we need to go back and do some more work on this.”

Approved by the UT System Board of Regents, the center will house basket-

ball and volleyball games, convocations, conventions and other large events. It will reside at Center and Pecan streets, south of West Second Street. The uni-versity plans to begin construction on the center itself in March or April 2010 and complete by March or April 2012.

Overall, 2,016 net spaces will be added based on the Parking Phasing Plan for the Special Events Center.

SARAH [email protected]

Preliminary parking plan releasedSPECIAL EVENTS CENTER

The university is monitoring southern lots to gauge needs and adjust as necessary.

BY ALI MUSTANSIRContributor to The Shorthorn

Barbara Ehrenreich spoke about the fi-nancial difficulties working-class citizens face Wednesday at this semester’s final Maverick Speakers Series lecture.

Ehrenreich walked onto the stage and asked for the audience lights to be brightened, so that she could see people as she spoke about her experience writing the 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America. She said the book required her to write in a way she was not fully familiar with — report-ing. Her primary experience is in column and essay writing.

Ehrenreich compared herself to Nellie Bly, who in 1887 faked insanity to be admitted into

Political writer exposes workingclass struggles

LECTURE

Barbara Ehrenreich emphasizes that having faith in American common people can salvage the current economic crisis.

Six Flags Over Texas will serve alcoholic beverages starting this Sat-urday, according to an article in the Star-Telegram.

The Texas Alcoholic Bever-age Commission allowed the park to begin selling Tuesday, but Six Flags’ next open day is Saturday. In a previous article in The Shorthorn, Six Flags Over Texas spokesperson Sharon Parker said that although the park can serve multiple alcohol variations, the park’s menu is limited to beer. She said the new beverage option has been in the works since 2007 after numerous customer re-quests.

Parker did not return phone calls

by press time.Fine arts junior Avery Davies said

he assumes the park researched their options.

“I’m sure they’ve looked into the risk,” he said. “I have mixed feelings, but I’m sure it’s good to bring in the older crowd.”

Although Davies can legally drink, he probably won’t do so at Six Flags.

“I’m not a beer fan,” he said.Electrical engineering freshman

Patrick Mojsak isn’t keen on the change.

“I don’t think it’d be a good idea, because you have little kids in the vicinity of alcohol drinkers,” he said.

English sophomore Ian Suther-

land said he fears what children will learn from adults who are drinking.

“It’s different in places like bars and stuff,” he said. “Our kids are watching us, and they learn from our behaviors.”

In a previous Shorthorn article, Parker said the park plans to handle the sale of alcohol properly through several measures. Visitors can buy beer in six locations throughout the park, but once purchased, the alcohol must be consumed in the designated area. Special cups designated for al-coholic beverages notify staff what customers are drinking.

— Dustin Dangli

Six Flags Over Texas to begin selling beer in designated areas Saturday

The Shorthorn: Chris Hudson

SKIES OF GRAYArt professor Mark Clive stops to check out the cloud formations near Woolf Hall Wednesday. According to the National Weather Service there is a 30 percent chance of more storms today.

The Shorthorn: Monica Lopez

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, right, answers a question from a panelist at a roundtable discussion Wednesday in the Architecture Building auditorium. The book depicts Ehrenreich’s view of America in impoverished situations based on her own observation through investigative tactics.

DISCUSSING DISABILITIES

BY THE NUMBERSSummer 2009The university will add 203 spaces through expansion of southern parking lots. • Expand Lot 50 to add 49 spaces.• Expand Lot 51 to add 80 spaces.• Construct new Lot 54 to add 74 spaces.• Begin construction of a south garage between Center and Pecan streets, north of West Second Street.NET COUNT: + 203

Summer 2010The university will expand and close some parking lots.• Expand Lot 52 to add 60 spaces.• Close Lots 42 and 43, lose 300 spaces.• Close Lipscomb Hall North Lot, lose 137. • Close the Arlington Hall Lot, lose 408.• Convert Lot 47 to residential parking for Brazos House and Arlington and Lipscomb halls. This will lose 596 general parking spaces but gain 188 spaces to residence parking for the east side of campus, addressing a current Student Congress resolution.• Partial closing of Lot 40, lose 141 spaces.NET COUNT: - 24

Summer 2011The university will focus on completion of the parking garages.• South Parking Garage will finish adding 1,144 spaces.• Close remainder of Lot 40 losing 204 spaces.NET COUNT: + 916

Summer 2012• The university will open the north ga-rage, adding 1,100 spaces.NET COUNT: + 2,016

ILLUSTRATION BY BRAD BORGERDING

The Shorthorn: Meghan Williams

BARBARA continues on page 6A

Read the story on page 6

Civil engineering junior Frank Schalla interviews international busi-ness sophomore Katy Mulienburg as a part of Nacho Disability, a disability awareness event, Wednesday in Brazos House.

THREE-DAY FORECAST

CORRECTIONS

Calendar submissions must be made by 4 p.m. two days prior to run date. To enter your event, call 817-272-3661 or log on to www.theshorthorn.com/calendar

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Barbara Ehrenreich would speak at 7:30 Wednesday night. The time was incorrect in Wednesday’s paper.

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SaturdayWindy• High 57°F• Low 40°F

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TODAY

ACES (Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students): All Day, University Center. Free. For information, contact Joslyn Krismer at 817-272-2688 or [email protected].

North Texas Advanced Manufacturing & Logistics Summit: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Gaylord Texan Resort & Conference Center, 1501 Gaylord Trail, Grapevine. $179 per person. For infor-mation, contact Jennifer Wilson at 817-272-5909 or [email protected].

Bone Marrow Drive: 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., University Cen-ter. Free. For information, contact UTA Volunteers at 817-272-2963.

Carter Blood Drive: 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Library and University Center mall. No appointment is necessary to donate. For information, contact Leona Adams or P.K. Kelly at 817-272-2963 or [email protected].

Art Exhibition — Rimer Car-dillo and Darryl Lauster: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., The Gallery at UTA. Exhibitions dates are March 23-April 25. Free. For information, contact Patricia Healy at 817-272-5658 or [email protected].

Micro/Mesoscale Manipula-tion and Fixturing: 10 a.m., ARRI, 7300 Jack Newell Blvd., Fort Worth. Free. For information, contact Dan Popa at 817-272-5927 or [email protected].

Drop-in Advising and Info Table: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., UC. Free. For information, contact Courtney Bauman at 817-272-1120 or [email protected].

Understanding Grief Work-shop: 1:30-2:30 p.m., 216 Davis Hall. Free. For infor-mation, contact Counseling Services at 817-272-3671.

This is a part of the daily activity log produced by the university’s Police Department. To report a criminal incident on campus, call 817-272-3381.

POLICE REPORT

WEDNESDAY

DisturbancePolice responded at 1:03 a.m. to inves-

tigate a loud noise disturbance at West Crossing apartments, 415 S. West St. Police located the resident responsible

for the noise and issued a disciplinary referral.

TUESDAY

Welfare checkUniversity police were called at 11:30

p.m. by the Arlington Hall residence direc-tor to check the well being of a resident at the dorm. The responding officers deter-mined the student was in good condition

and posed no danger to others or himself.

Minor accidentPolice responded at 3:44 p.m. to the

scene of a minor accident at 700 W. Mitch-ell St. Police issued a City of Arlington citation to one of the parties involved in the accident.

Suspicious circumstancesPolice were called at 3:13 p.m. to inves-

tigate a report of a disturbance in front of the Central Library. Officers located the nonstudent responsible and issued a criminal trespass warning.

Warrant service – misdemeanorFollowing a traffic stop at 10:34 a.m.,

police arrested the driver of a vehicle at 900 S. Pecan St. after discovering out-standing warrants for the driver’s arrest.

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BY SARAH LUTZThe Shorthorn staff

University departments that excel at reducing, reusing and recycling can now receive recognition for their efforts.

Departments can sign up for an Office Green Team online, and a committee member will verify the accomplishments and award a decal with a rating of bronze, silver or gold.

Recycling Coordinator Becky Valentich said the committee has received 22 applications and visited two offices. The Student Publica-tions department received a bronze rating and University Center Opera-tions/Residence Life office received a gold rating.

The President’s Sustainability Committee began the Office Green Team Committee to expand efforts to every level of the university, said Megan Topham, PSC purchasing workgroup chair. While brainstorm-ing ideas to reduce waste and the amount of purchasing at the univer-sity, this grassroots effort surfaced as the best solution, she said.

“These are the folks that are going to be implementing it, and you need to get them in to really make a differ-ence,” she said. “And it’s nice that we are getting a lot of ideas from people, and it’s time consuming but at the same time, it’s really nice that people are putting that much thought in it.”

Lauren Miller, conference and marketing services coordinator, said the Office Green Team project en-couraged change where lack of mo-tivation had restrained additional effort.

“For the most part, the office was still really committed to doing these things, but nobody collectively got

together and made it happen,” she said. “It was just kind of buying some new things that we didn’t already have and then just replacing them with the things that weren’t really meeting the standards.”

Miller said her office threw away plastic forks and spoons, disposable cups, paper plates, plastic stir sticks and sugar packets and bought sil-verware, dishes and biodegradable wooden stir sticks. The office pur-chased sugar and other kitchen sup-plies in bulk and replaced cleaning supplies with eco-friendly products.

“One of the big changes I think for us was, we got rid of all the trash cans, which was a nice change because it really makes you sit and

think about … what is and is not re-cyclable,” she said. “We all got office plants too which has been really fun because we made them part of our family and named them and been really ridiculous with it.”

Miller said that when her depart-ment formed its Office Green Team, it implemented some initiatives on the application but also developed new ideas and will continue expand-ing its efforts.

“We joke that we want the in-augural platinum group,” she said. “I think we’re just trying to stay informed with it and continue to be educated as a group and as that happens, we’ll continue to make changes.”

PSC co-chair Don Lange said the program will continue to expand and he hopes to have covered most of the campus by the beginning of the fall semester.

“Our goal is to get every depart-ment or office on some sort of level so they start thinking about what they’re doing and then start expand-ing it from there,” he said. “We’re not enforcing anything. We’re try-ing to get them to think about the way they use their office and try to be a little more environmentally conscious with the things they can control personally.”

SARAH LUTZ

[email protected]

University departments go green to win the gold in recycling competition

SUSTAINABILITY

The campuswide contest is an effort to reduce the amount of waste that UTA generates.

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Faculty Management Associate Director Don Lange and Safety Specialist Becky Valentich are part of the Green Team Committee. The Green Team goes to all university departments issuing ratings based on how eco-friendly the department is.

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Board hears testimony on science standardsAUSTIN — Tensions over how evolu-tion is taught simmered Wednesday as the State Board of Education started the final stretch of the process of adopting new classroom science curriculum standards.

Activists took advantage of the last opportunity to testify on the proposed standards, which would drop a 20-year-old rule that requires both “strengths and weak-nesses” of all scientific theories be taught. Critics say the requirement is used to undermine the theory of evolution in favor of religious teach-ings.

But the bill, a top priority of the National Rifle Association, would no longer let employers ban guns in company parking facilities — as long as they remain locked up inside an employee’s vehicle.

Bill lets Texans keep guns in cars at workAUSTIN — Texans, who love guns and pickup trucks with equal fervor, could soon have the right to keep them together all the way into the company parking garage.

The Texas Senate gave unanimous approval to legislation Wednesday that would allow people to carry firearms to work and then store them in their parked vehicles outside. Businesses could still keep guns out of their offices and compa-ny-owned vehicles.

But the bill, a top priority of the National Rifle Association, would no longer let employers ban guns in company parking facilities — as long as they remain locked up inside an employee’s vehicle.

in the world

EU presidency: US stimulus ‘road to hell’BRUSSELS — The head of the Eu-ropean Union slammed President Barack Obama’s plan to spend nearly $2 trillion to push the U.S. economy out of recession as “the road to hell” that EU governments must avoid.

The blunt comments by Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek to the European Parliament on Wednesday highlighted simmering European differences with Wash-ington ahead of a key summit next week on fixing the world economy.

It was the strongest pushback yet from a European leader as the 27-nation bloc bristles from U.S. criticism that it is not spending enough to stimulate demand.

— The Associated Press

AP Photo: Allen G. Breed

$ign of the timesA gas station in Raleigh, N.C., has a not-so-subtle message for President Barack Obama about the distribution of economic stimulus money Tuesday.

Bismark, ND mayor ‘optimistic’ after blast opens flood channel

Senate approves change in top 10 percent rule

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the associated PressBiSMArCK, N.d. —

demolition crews blasted chunks of ice near a huge ice jam in the Missouri river on Wednesday in a bid to open a channel, like pulling out a giant plug to drain a flood threatening the city.

“We are cautiously opti-mistic,” Bismarck Mayor John Warford said after explosives detonated on about 500 feet of ice just south of the jam. He said officials would have a better assessment Wednes-day night but that water ap-peared to be moving.

Water backing up behind the dam of car-size ice blocks already had forced the evacu-ation of about 1,700 people from low-lying areas in North dakota’s capital city.

on the eastern side of the state, volunteers continued stacking sandbags to protect Fargo from the rising red river, as the city prepared to distribute evacuation route information.

The Missouri river jam, created by ice floating down the Heart river, was made up of chunks of ice up to 3 feet thick and the size of small cars, said Assistant

Water Commission engineer Todd Sando. it was about 11 miles downstream from the city.

“The ice is just solid as a rock,” Sando said.

Crews from Advanced explosives demolition, with help from National Guard, the Army Corps of engineers and the Coast Guard, drilled holes in the ice to detonate clay-like explosives.

roger Kay, an Army Corps of engineers hydrau-lic engineer, said ice down-stream from that jam ap-peared to be melting and weakening, meaning less resistance once the jam is broken loose.

“The ice is showing signs of becoming more rotten,” Kay said.

A second ice jam about 10 miles upstream of Bismarck was also a concern, holding back a growing reservoir.

The National Weather Service posted a flash flood warning for a three-county area, saying the integrity of that ice jam, in an area called double ditch, was unpredict-able.

“The fact that it could break at any time is bad news.

But right now, the ice jam around the double ditch has not broken,” Bismarck Mayor John Warford said at a morn-ing news conference.

residents of low-lying subdivisions in Bismarck

and neighboring Mandan had been told to evacuate, and Fox island residents Jane and Michael Pole didn’t need much prodding. “We just grabbed a bag, threw some stuff in and left,” Jane

Pole said.Some 200 miles east of

Bismarck, officials also called for more sandbagging volun-teers in Fargo, and its cross-river neighbor, Moorhead, Minn.

the associated PressAUSTiN — debating the

most sweeping reform of college admissions policies in more than a decade, Texas senators approved legisla-tion Tuesday that would end automatic entry to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

Practically speaking, most students who make the top 10 percent cut would still be able to get into a public Texas college — some college — for years. But the University of Texas at Aus-tin, where more than 80 percent of the home-state freshman class are admitted

under the rule, could start cutting back on such auto-matic admissions by the fall of 2010 if the changes are approved.

“if you do the math, in the next three years it will be 100 percent. And 100 per-cent of students coming in under one criterion and one criterion only seems very unfair and seems to tie the hands of the university to not have flexibility to take other types of students,” said Sen. Florence Shapiro, r-Plano, author of the legisla-tion.

Shapiro has said the top 10 percent law has caused a “brain drain” at UT, prompt-

ing exceptional students who fall just outside its pa-rameters to go elsewhere.

in a surprise move, the Sen-ate also tacked on an amend-ment that would give scholar-ships, up to the full amount of tuition, to needy students who meet the top 10 percent thresh-old. Qualified students not admitted to the public college of their choice could use the scholarship at a Texas university that did

let them in.Shapiro called the schol-

arship provision “very confus-ing” and said it would likely face revision as the bill moves through the legislature.

The reform passed the Sen-ate on a 22-8 vote Tuesday evening after several hours of often tense

debate. it faces a final Sen-ate vote, probably this week, and must get over several more legislative hurdles be-

fore it could become law.The bill would still give

automatic admission to top high school achievers. But it would cap the number uni-versities have to admit.

Under the legislation, known as SB 175, universi-ties could start turning away students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class once they made up 60 percent of a university’s entering fresh-man body. For now, the bill would only impact UT, but over time it could affect other schools as the number of students seeking admis-sion based on high-school performance goes up.

AP Photo: Carolyn Kaster

One of Doug Stensguard’s dogs, Annie, looks out over what used to be a 5-acre yard and an out building that is now flooded by the rising Red River, Tuesday in Fargo, N.D. Stensguard built an earthen and sandbag dike around his home in the hope of holding back the rising floodwater from the Red River.

“...100 percent of students coming in under one criterion and one criterion only seems very unfair....”

sen. florence shapiror-Plano, author of

the legislation

sportsabout sports

Stephen Peters, [email protected]

Sports publishes Tuesday through Friday.

rememberwww.theshorthorn.com is your home for updated standings, schedules, blogs and

podcasts all season long.

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A Thursday, March 26, 2009

the National Wheelchair Basketball Association selected the All-Americans for the Intercollegiate Division, two of which are Movin’ Mavs.

sophomore Ian pierson and junior David Wilkes were two of the 10 se-lected.

“It is exciting to have two play-ers from our program selected for All American honors,” head coach Doug Garner said. “I think this says a lot about the work ethic of these two stu-dent athletes and about the respect they bring to themselves and to our program.”

As a team, the Movin’ Mavs fin-ished third at the national tournament in Whitewater, Wis.,a after defeating Arizona 67-57, finishing with an 18-6 record for the year.

UtA lost to Illinois 67-54 in the tournament’s semifinal round — the third time this year. UtA defeated southwest Minnesota state 46-34 to open the tournament.

For the year, Wilkes averaged 16.2 points on 64 percent shooting and 12.8 rebounds a game. pierson chipped in with 17.7 points in 48 percent from the floor and 43 percent from beyond the arc.

Next year, the Movin’ Mavs will re-turn nine players to the roster, but lose the last two remaining players with national championship experience in seniors tyler Garner and Aaron Gouge.

“I am very excited about next year’s group of recruits,” Garner said. “If they all show up next season, we should have a very interesting and exciting season.”

— Stephen Peters

Two Movin’ Mavs named to the Intercollegiate All-AMerican squad

BY stephen petersThe Shorthorn sports editor

the baseball team’s mid-week game against Louisiana tech was canceled Wednes-day night due to inclement weather.

the Mav-ericks (12-11, 5-4) were s c h e d u l e d to play the second of b a c k - t o -back games against the B u l l d o g s after los-ing to texas A&M on t u e s d a y night 11-8.

UtA will travel to Nicholls state (11-10, 5-4) for a three-game south-land Conference weekend series beginning Friday at 6 p.m.

Head coach Darin thomas said the canceled game would not affect his pitching rota-tion, as the team will use “its normal conference rotation”

for the weekend series.senior right-hander Andy

sauter (2-1) will start for the Mavs on Friday. sauter was named pitcher of the week Monday after a complete game shutout of Northwest-ern state last Friday.

on saturday, senior Na-than Long (2-1) takes the mound followed by sopho-more rett Varner (2-1) for the

series finale.the match

up between the Mav-ericks and Bulldogs will not be re-s c h e d u l e d . this is also the second time this year the baseball schedule has been altered because of weather.

UtsA and UtA were scheduled to start a se-ries March 13, but were forced to make up that can-celed game on the 15th as a doubleheader.

stephen [email protected]

Louisiana tech game canceled

BaseBall

The game against the Bulldogs was called due to inclement weather in the Metroplex.

Confence StandingsEast SLC OverallSoutheastern Louisiana 6-3 15-7UTSA 6-3 14-8Texas State 6-3 13-8Lamar 5-4 16-8Sam Houston State 5-4 14-8Central Arkansas 5-4 12-10Nicholls State 5-4 11-10UTA 5-4 12-11Northwestern State 4-4 10-10McNeese State 3-6 11-10Stephen F. Austin 2-6 7-14Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 1-8 8-17

The Shorthorn: Michael Rettig

The Mavericks’ baseball game against the Louisiana Tech was canceled due to inclement weather. The next game will be Friday against Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La.

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while in school for some stu-dents.”

the new provision also af-

fects how long the borrower has to repay loans after gradu-ation. they’ll be required to repay loans within 5-15 years, instead of the previous 15-30 years.

A typical student could save up to 40 percent and cut the

repayment time by nine years, sallie Mae spokesperson patri-cia Christel said.

“We think college students and parents of today will see the value in paying a little now to save a lot in the long run,” she said.

the new loan enables stu-dents to save money, build good credit and repay their student loan faster said Jack Hewes, sallie Mae senior executive vice president and chief lending of-ficer, in a press release.

“We have tried to design this

loan to be sensitive to the needs of students who not only rely on this financing to get to col-lege but also want a more man-ageable level of debt as they transition from school to work,” he said in the release. “paying a little while in school guaran-

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The UT System approved HKS Architects, Inc., the same firm that designed the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium and the American Airlines Center, as chief architect for the special events center earlier this month.

The university has a few expectations for the design. John Hall, Administration and Campus Operations vice presi-dent, said the university wants a facility that creates an instant landmark on campus and in the community.

“The design needs to be con-sistent with the design guide-lines in the Campus Master Plan,” Hall said.

He said the university would like a striking facility that com-plements the existing campus landscape but at the same time, creates a strong statement.

HKS artist renderings for the center are on the university Web site, but Hall said the design isn’t complete.

“The conceptual drawings are just that — conceptual — [the new design] may look similar, but then again, it may look significantly different from the conceptual drawing,” he said.

Athletic Director Pete Carlon said the firm’s previous project designs could be utilized for the center on a smaller scale. For example, he said the center could have similar features like the Jack Stephens Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

“We want something that brings unique character to the institution and is reflective of

the institution and is a gather-ing place for the community at large,” Carlon said.

Hall said the university wants a first-class facility that represents UTA well in terms of design and functional excellence and incorporates best practices in design and operational effec-tiveness. The design also needs to be sustainable and LEED cer-tified, he said.

In a previous interview, Hall said the decision to choose HKS was based upon the firm’s quali-fications on similar projects as well as the proposed team and its experience.

“HKS has a pretty vast port-folio of arena projects,” he said in that interview.

History freshman Krystina Morris, whose graduation coin-cides with the center’s comple-tion, said she would like to see the center’s design represent the university’s colors, because most of the buildings on campus are “brown and plain.”

“If it’s going to be a land-mark, it has to stick out,” she said.

Architecture senior Mikhail Sookoor said he would like the design to be a steeple for univer-sity athletics.

“I think it really needs to stand out because it’s a focal point for the school because one of our strongest sports is basket-ball,” he said.

Jerry Fawcett, HKS associate principal and senior vice presi-dent, was not available for com-ment.

The center is scheduled for completion in spring 2012 and will be located between South Center and South Pecan streets at West Second street.

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The selected firm also created the rendition of the design posted online.

By Dustin l. DangliThe Shorthorn staff

While the disabilities may not be theirs, participants of Nacho Disability learned to not take the cheesy treats for granted.

Brazos House hosted the event Wednesday night, which was open to the cam-pus community. About a dozen participants made nachos, conducted inter-views and counted change with a twist, placing them in the shoes of people with disabilities. The event was intended to bring aware-ness, said Stephen Walloch, event organizer and resident assistant.

“I liked the nachos ac-tivity,” undeclared freshman Andrea Mims said. “Unlike the other activities you had to play the part the whole time.”

The nacho event split participants into pairs, as-signing members one of three disabilities.

Some students, like Mims, had to keep their eyes shut to simulate blindness. Similarly, biology and Span-ish senior Lonnie Thach took baby steps with his arm fully extended on his way to the kitchen to get water. A grimace remained on his face throughout.

Others had to remain mute during the activity.

The most mind boggling for some students was the third assigned mock disabil-ity, because what its actions represented weren’t imme-diately clear. Students had to keep their arms behind their backs and walk backwards.

“It’s how people living

with bipolar disorder de-scribe life,” Walloch said.

Another activity had par-ticipants having mock job interviews with lollipops in their mouths to mimic a speech impediment. Art and

psychology junior Stephanie Watkins said understanding the interviewee challenged her. Some students playing the role of the interviewee found it frustrating to get a point across.

“I felt he couldn’t take me seriously,” nursing senior Clint Montya said about the interview.

The third had partici-pants pretend they were blind and counting change at a store. They had to count change with their eyes closed and, to make it more difficult, the crowd heckled and hurried them.

“I liked the coin-count-ing activity because it’s re-ally easy to take for granted,” Brazos House Director Es-ther Mack said.

The night ended with a reflection session about the night’s activities. Par-ticipants told personal stories in order to raise awareness and to end the activity thinking.

Programs like these are a great way to spread aware-ness throughout the univer-sity, said Dianne Hengst, Of-fice for Students with Dis-abilities director.

“I’ve noticed an increase in the number of events and students talking about the issue,” she said.

Hengst said there are 370 registered students with dis-abilities but it’s important to note that the number may not be very reflexive because students aren’t required to register.

Mims said she worked with disabled students be-fore and the event was a good reminder.

“It’s always good to re-mind yourself,” she said. “And it’s good for other peo-ple to be more aware.”

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Nacho Average Evening Brazos House serves snacks to raise disability awareness

an asylum for an exposé. Eh-renreich said she was not as brave as Bly.

For the book, Ehrenreich joined working-class Ameri-cans in the best paying jobs she could find, without using her credentials and experi-ence.

“I did not see a wanted ad for a sarcastic, feminist, political essayist,” she said.

Ehrenreich was a waitress, house cleaner, nursing home assistant, Wal-Mart associ-ate and hotel house keeper,

all of which she found physi-cally and mentally difficult. She said at Wal-Mart, her job was to put fitting room and discarded items back in their place.

“I learned to never use ‘unskilled’ ever again to de-scribe someone’s job,” she said.

Ehrenreich said the book is like reality TV, with herself as a contestant tasked with finding money to get by.

“Easy credit has been our society’s substitute for de-cent wages,” she said.

Ehrenreich cited default-ed subprime mortgages as a major factor in the world economic crisis.

“Chronically poor in America had become a trip-wire for world recession,” she said.

Ehrenreich said that an economy based on debt and credit isn’t sustainable and the economy shouldn’t be our main concern.

“Take care of people,” she said. “Give them a fighting chance, and they will build up an economy.”

Social work senior Ra-nita Norwood said she was stirred, motivated and ap-preciative of Ehrenreich’s re-ality in her book. Norwood’s thesis paper, “The Implica-tions of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on Women and

Children 12 Years Later,” made similar points.

“Ehrenreich addressed how we have to get back to putting people first,” Nor-wood said.

Doreen Elliott, School of Social Work professor, said she recommends Nickel and Dimed to her students. She said Ehrenreich is a great communicator and has simi-lar values with those of social work.

“I think she is great,” El-liott said, “I think she says some very serious things in some very funny ways.”

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The Shorthorn: Meghan Williams

Biology and Spanish senior Lonnie Thach tries to find his way into the next room as a part of Nacho Disability, a disability awareness event, Wednesday in Brazos House. Thach closed his eyes in order to expe-rience blindness.

Barbara Ehren-reich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, spoke about obstacles for the work-ing class after drawing experi-ences from working various blue-collar jobs in her book. Ehrenreich was the last to give a lecture this semester as part of the Mav-erick Speakers Series.

The Shorthorn: Michael Rettig

“I learned to never use ‘unskilled’ ever again to describe someone’s job.”

Barbara Ehrenreich, political writer

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